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by nxtfari 26 days ago
An important idea I’ve observed true across industries is “prices rise like a rocket and fall like a feather,” meaning that even though price rises are usually genuinely driven, you can bet that once they’re up the involved parties are doing whatever they can to keep them up. Humans are greedy.

More formal reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_price_transmission